And emt paramedic to please stand up. [applause] thank you very much for what you do in keeping us safe and keeping us safe every single day. And thank you for the mission that you do every single day for us. And now onto the knights program. It is absolute pleasure to have Garrett Graff back with us here. The last time he was here he spoke about the governments doomsday plan from his last book raven rock of the straight u. S. Government secret plan to say that some of the rest of us die. [laughing] tonight we are welcoming him back to the museum to discuss another very somber topic, the terror attacks of 9 11. He has collected and organized 360 degrees account of the day told through the voice of people who experienced it in his new book, the only plane in the sky. He is a distinguished magazine journalist, regular tv commentator was spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology and National Security. Garrett is the author of a number of books including the First Campaig
Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted? A rough
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As terrorists seized control of four airplanes on Sept. 11th, 2001, Ben Sliney, chief of air-traffic-control operations at the FAA's command center in Herndon, Va., gave the unprecedented order to ground 4,000-plus planes across the nation and redirect any in the sky to the nearest airport. It was his first day on the…